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J. G. A. KITCHEN. TOY.

PatentedApr. 28, 1896.

WITNESSES:

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ATTORNEY AN DRZW B GRAHAM. PflOTO-UTNO.WASHINGTON.D l5.

UNITED STATES I PATENT" OFFICE.

JOHN GEORGE AULSEBROOK KITCHEN, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,293, dated April28, 1896.

Application filed July 2 0,1 8 9 5 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GEORGE AULSE- BROOK KITCHEN, a subject of theQueen of Great Britain, and a resident of Manchester, in the county ofLancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inToys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to toys, especially such as represent reptiles,animals, and birds, in which the bodies, limbs, or other parts are madeto move; and it consists in an improved construction of such moving toysor parts thereof.

The invention is specially applicable to toys representing snakes and toparts of other toys representing animals-for instance, to trunks ofelephants, necks of birds, tails of reptiles, tentacles of crustacea andinsects, also to the arms and legs of toys representing acrobats orcontortionists.

The improvements consist in making the bodies, limbs, or other membersof the bodies of representations of living creatures of alaterally-flexible and longitudinally-contractible spring, and soarranging and attaching a cord or cords or their equivalents theretothat when these are pulled the body or limb shall contract, writhe, orcurl, according to the manner of construction and temper or nature ofthe spring, and straighten itself out again and resume its original formwhen the cord is released. The springs may be formed of helically-coiledwire or of wire bent into a flat serpentine spring or of corrugatedindia-rubber tubes.

On the drawings appended hereunto, Figure 1 shows a toy snake formed ofhelicallycoiled wire; Fig. 2, a portion of serpentine fiat wire; Fig. 3,a longitudinal section of corrugated india-rubber tubing.

Referring first to Fig. 1, the body a of the snake is formed of steelwire coiled helically and tapering toward each end, a head 1) formed ofany suitable material being inserted into one end. The wire may betempered.

A cord 0 is fixed internally to the head and tail and passes out of thecoil at the middle Serial No. 556,656. (No model.)

part. By placing the snake upon the hand and allowing the cord to passthrough be tween two fingers and pulling and releasing the same, amusingand lifelike contortions of the snake are produced. The wire coil may becolored or covered with a colored or painted skin of india-rubber orelastic fabric. In a similar way parts of toys representing livingcreatures, such as the trunks of elephants oval, or of any other formsuitable for representing the parts of the animal formed therewith.Instead of a wire coil or helical spring, a wire spring of flatserpentine form, as shown by Fig. 2, or a corrugated tube of vulcanizedindia-rubber, as shown by Fig. 3, may be used, which will belongitudinally contractible by means of the cord and straighten andexpand itself again when released.

I claim as my invention 1. A toy animal, consisting of alaterallyflexible and longitudinally contractible spring, a cord whoseends are immovably secured respectively to opposite ends of the saidspring, and means for laterally pulling and releasing the cord.

2. A toy animal, consisting of the combination of a helical coil of wireforming a spring, a cord extending through the spring and immovablysecured to opposite ends thereof and a branch cord attached centrally tothe first cord and passing to the outside of the coil betweenconvolutions thereof.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

JOHN GEORGE AULSEBROOK KITCHEN.

Witnesses CARL Bonnie, R. J. URQUHART.

